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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.
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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) grown with reduced lignin during preflight testing as part of Dissecting Beneficial...
jsc2024e038397 (6/5/2024) --- Lysozyme crystals grown with Redwire’s PIL-BOX aboard the International Space Station....
jsc2008e152661 (12/8/2008) --- A preflight view of a Biorisk-MSV container, part of the Biorisk experiment equipment...
iss060e035405 (8/13/2019) --- A view the NanoRacks-NCESSE-Gemini NanoRacks-National Center for Earth and Space...
iss022e026234 (1/20/2010) --- A view of Container Biorisk MSV No. 12, in the Service Module (SM) aboard the...
iss049e046023 (10/25/2016) --- NASA astronauts Shane and Kate Rubins are photographed during VEG-03 initiation in...
jsc2019e062136 (10/24/2019) --- Dr. Karl Shiller presents the loaded nematode tube samples. Microgravity Effect on...
jsc2019e062135 (10/24/2019) --- Dr. Karl Shiller weighs some of the material included with the nematodes tubes....
iss028e020313 (8/2/2011) --- A view of the Biorisk-[MSN] platform with three containers to be installed on the...
iss060e035407 (8/13/2019) --- A view the NanoRacks-NCESSE-Gemini NanoRacks-National Center for Earth and Space...
jsc2008e152662 (12/10/2008) --- A preflight view of connectors on a Biorisk-MSV container, part of the Biorisk...
jsc2026e034369 (April 28, 2026) --- Image of RubyRed staining of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm obtained with a...
jsc2026e034370 (April 28, 2026) --- Preflight image of Syto9 staining of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm as part of...
jsc2026e034367 (April 28, 2026) --- Image of Staphylococcus colonies grown on agar in preparation for ground testing...
jsc2020e003405 (10/30/2019) --- A preflight view of BioServe’s Fluid Processing Apparatus (FPA) in a three-chamber...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Prototype Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Evan Williams,...
iss060e035409 (8/13/2019) --- A view of NASA astronaut Drew Morgan during the deactivation and/or shaking designated...
The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity...
ISS045e176110 (12/09/2015) --- Using the International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2 (right) NASA Flight...
The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity...
AiroCide Ti02, an anthrax-killing air scrubber manufactured by KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Prototype Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Evan Williams, an...
iss060e035415 8/13/2019) --- A view of NASA astronaut Drew Morgan during the deactivation and/or shaking designated...
ISS005-E-16729 (7 October 2002) --- Great Salt Lake, Utah, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 5...